The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-11-30

COIo IL SoCleCy anu Iue WOfIO are pain luAJ
discordant to imperfect man, what must they
be to perfect Coda People try to define
! what sin is. 1t seems to me that sin is get
ting out Of harmony with God, disagree
ment with His holiness, with His purity, with
His love- with His commands; our will clash
, ing with His will, the finite dashing against
the infinite, the frall against the puissant, the
created against the Creator. If thousand
musicians, with flute. and cornet- a-plston,
and trumpet, and violoncello, and hautboys,
and trombone. and all the wind and stringed
instruments that ever gathered in Dussel-
! dorf jubilee, should resolve that they would
/ play out of tune and put concord TO the rack,
and make the place wild with shrieking, and
grating, and rasping sounds, they could not
make such q pandeMoMiun as that which
RACES in sinful soul when God listens to the
! play of its thoughts, passions and emotions
diScord, lifelong discord, maddening d:Scord.
The world pays more for discord than it
does for conSonance. High prices have been
paid for music. One man gave 1925 to hear
the Swedish songStreSS in New York. and an
other S625 to hear her in Boston, and another
! $3.50 to hear her in Providence Fabulous
prices have been paid for sweet sounds, but
far more has been paid for discord. The
Crimean war cost 81. .7C0, 100000, and our
American cival war over $9.500, 0,OO0,0 900, and
the war debts Of professed Christian nations
are about SIS, ,000, ,0O0, 900, The world pays
for this red ticket, which admits it to the
saturnalia of broken bones and death ago
nies and destroyed cities, and plowed graves,
! and crushed hearts. any amount Of mone!T
Satan asks. Discord! Discord!
But I have to tell you that the song
that the morning stars sang together
at the laying of the worlds corner
stone is to be resumed again. Mozart's
greatest overture was composed one night
| when he Was several times overpowered with
sleep, and artists say they can tell the places
in the music where he was falling asleep and
the places where he awakened SO the over
1ure Of the morning stars spoken of in my
text has been asleep, but it will awaken and
be more grandly rendered by the evening
stars of the worlds existence than by the
morning stars, and the vespers will be
sweeter than the mathis. The work OF all
good men and women and Of all good
churches and all reform associations is to
bring the race back to tie original harmony.
The rebellious heart to be attune&, social life
to be attuned, commercial ethics to be at
tuned, internationally to be attuned, hemis-
pheres to be attuned-but by what force
and in what way?
In olden time the choristers had a tuning
fork with two prongs, and they would strike
it on the back Of pew or music rack and put
IL 10 Tue eur ana Uneu tuS tuLe, anu eiil
the other voices would join. In modern or
cheStra the leader has complete instrument,
rightly attuned, and he sounds that, and all
the other performers turn the keys Of their
instruments to make them correspond, and
sound the bow over the string, and listen,
and sound out over again, until all the keys
are screwed to concert pitch. and the dis
cords melt into one great symphony, and the
curtain hoists and the baton taps, and audi
.irh
disc and the Peri" or Rossini's ''Stabat Mater"
or Bsch's ''Magnifcat'' in D, or Gounod's
Redemption
Now, our world can never be attune6 by
an imperfect instrument. Even a Cremona
would not do. Heaven has ordained the only
instrument, and it is made out of the wood OF
the cross, and the voices that accompany it
are imported voices, cantatriceS of the first
Christmas night, when heaven serenaded the
earth with "Glory to God in the highest and
on earth peace good will to men," Lest we
start too far off and get lost il. generalitieS,
we had better begin with ourselves. get our
own hearts and life in harmony with the
eternal Christ. Oh, for His almighty spirit
to attune US, to chord our will with his will,
to modulate our life with his life, and bring
rs into unison with all that is pure and self
sacrificing and heavenly. The strings of our
nature are all broken and twisted, and the
bow is so slack it cannot evoke anything mel
EluouS The instrument made for heaven to
play on has been roughly twanged and struck
BY influences worldly and demoniac. o.
master hand of Christ, restore this split and
fractured and deSpoiled and unstrung nature
until it shall wall out for this sin, and then
thrill with divine pardon.
The whole world must also be attuned by
the same power A few days ago was in
the Fairbanks weighing scale mandatory
of Vermont. Six hundred hands, and they
have never had strike. Complete harmony
between labor and capital, the operatives Of
scores Of years in their beautiful homes near
by the mansions Of the manufacturers whose
invention and Christian behavior made the
great enterprise. So all the world over labor
and capital will be brought into euphony'
Nou may have heard what is called the AN
vii Chorus" composed by Verdi, tune
played by hammers, great and small, now
with mighty stroke, and now with heavy
stroke, beating great iron anvil. That IS
what the world has got to come to-anvll
chorus, yard stick chorus, shuttle chorus.
trowel chorus, crowbar chorus, pickax
chorus. gold mine chorus rail track chorus,
locomotive chorus. 1t can be done, and it
tuned by the Gospel harp. There will
be as many classes in society as
now. but the classes will not be regu-
lated by birth, or wealth, or accident,
but by the scale Of virtue and benevolence,
and people will be assigned to their places
as good. or very good, or most ex-
cellent. So also, commercial life will be
attuned, and there will be twelve in every
dozen and sixteen ounces in every pound,
and apples at the bottom of the barrel will be
as sound as those on top, and silk goods will
not be cotton, and sellers will not have to
charge honest people more than the right
price because others will not pay, and goods
will come to you corresponding with the
sample by which you purchased them, and
coffee will not be chickoried and sugar will
not be Sanded, and milk will not be chalked
and adulteration of food will be a States
prison offense. Aye, all things shall be at
tuned, Elections in England and the United
States will no more be a grand carnival OF
defamation and scurTility, but the elevation
of righteous men in righteous way.
In the Sixteenth century the singers, called
the Fischer brothers, reached the lowest bass
ever recorded, and the highest note ever
thrilled was by La BaStardella, and CatallnIs
voice had compass of three and half octaves,
but Christianity is more wonderful, for 1t runs
all up and down the greatest heights and the
deepest depths of the worlds necessity, and
it will compass everything and bring it m ac-
cord with the song which the morning stars
sang at the laying Of the world cornerstone
AL the sacred music in homes and concert
halls and churches tends toward this consun-
nation Make it more and more hearty.
Sing in your families Sing in your places
of business. If We with proper spirit use
these faculties, we are rehearSing for the
skies.